Russian Brain Installed in Navy Sub

A Russian-designed neural controller that emulates the olivo-cerebellar
motor control system of the human brain has been installed in a US Navy
autonomous research vehicle according to a recent new release
from the Office of Naval Research. The Olivo-cerebellar
cluster-based universal control system, or UCS, was developed by
engineers at Russia's Nizhny Novgorod State University and Rodolfo Llinás
of NYU. They described the controller as a "weakly chaotic system" of
neurons. The
Navy hopes the controller will allow unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)
to complete complex maneuvers more quickly and smoothly than traditional
control systems. Tests of the robot sub will begin this summer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center